ECS Z97I-Drone LEET Gaming (LGA 1150) Review
Rikki Wright / 10 years ago
BIOS and Overclocking
The UEFI BIOS has been offered by motherboard manufacturers for a while now. The idea behind the UEFI BIOS is for the utilisation of the mouse in the BIOS environment. Manufacturers also offer an “EZ” BIOS, which consists of the key motherboard information such as the motherboard and CPU temperature. Normally, they offer an instant overclock function; which boosts the CPU performance to a built in safe level.
ECS offer a nice and simple EZ BIOS, tells you exactly what you want to know with all relevant information.
From there, you can enter the Advanced BIOS; which more closely resembles a legacy BIOS, but with mouse functions. This resembles the general BIOS layout which is all self-explanatory.
Overclocking
Overclocking on this motherboard was straight forward, increase the multiplier and exit. I found that the auto voltage features with this board weren’t up to the task of holding a stable 4.8GHz overclock on its own, so I had to manually fix the voltage to 1.275v.
